Tiny bottles of shampoo, soap, and lotion are slowly disappearing from hotel rooms. And not in the normal way, where you scoop them all into your bag and collect them in your medicine cabinet. Hotel chains are replacing the bottles with wall-mounted dispensers in the bathroom. Marriott, says the Wall Street Journal, plans to switch 1,900 of its hotels to the new system this year, and InterContinental Hotels Group is switching too.

Wall dispensers save hotels time, money, and plastic. And they can be more convenient for long trips and people who just need a lot of shampoo. But of course, the switch also feels like hotels giving us one less freebie. What are we supposed to take to our next Airbnb? Our own dollar-store travel kit? Like some kind of plebes?

So we denounce or celebrate the latest little change, just like we mourn the minibar or spit on its grave. We rage at the disappearance of the free coffee pouch, or we thank the hotel for selling Stumptown instead. And we adjust our habits, because we can’t hold back the tide of history. This cosmic dance of bursting decadence and withheld permissions twists all our arms collectively.

Anyway, hey, what’s the best freebie you’ve ever gotten from a hotel? What’s the best freebie you’ve gotten more than once? Ethical freebies preferred; a stolen bathrobe only feels good until the bill comes.